Research Eugene Parker and learn why he said, "We'll see who falls flat."

And, wow, the nominative determinism in these comments is fantastic.

Yes, it takes a brave person to accept that they have to change, and that all their underpinnings of existence are deeply flawed and the cause of the world's sufferings. Ignorance is destructive, my friend, to both our and others' happiness.

Compassion is the Way, and it cannot be argued, from even just a basic systems theoretic standpoint.